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This research guide is a starting point for ISU students, faculty, and staff who are conducting music research. Click on the tabs above to discover books, sheet music, journal articles, audio and video materials, databases, and other resources to help you with your research.

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New Music Books at the ISU Library

Talking Machine West: a history and catalogue of Tin Pan Alley’s western recordings, 1902-1918
by Michael A. Amundson

News!

We recently added Volume IV to the Classical Scores Library collection. Vol. IV adds greatly to music of the 20th and 21st centuries; ultimately it will provide 300,000 pages of scores. "With many scores newly digitized for the academic market, or licensed directly from the composers themselves, music scholars and faculty will find Music Online: Classical Scores Library: Volume IV to be a reliable source for authoritative scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery and dissemination of lesser-known contemporary works." (publisher-provided blurb)

We just added volume IV of this resource which may be of interest to World of Music students and others. Continues & enhances Vols. I-III; award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals; contains the full catalog of anthropology films from Berkeley Media, etc.